Thursday, September 18, 2008
Spring of '98 + Spring of '01
It was the spring of '98. I was allowed to participate in Senior Skip Day even though my mother was a teacher at my high school. Ryan T and I drove two and a half hours to Utica to see matchbox twenty play in some run down minor league ice hockey arena.
In '01 I lived in France for a while. I found this photograph this morning of my friend Alix and I somewhere in Nice whilst on a night out on the town. I don't know where she is these days. I kind of wish I could find her and tell her how nice it was to see this photo. Brought back a flood of memories.
In '01 I lived in France for a while. I found this photograph this morning of my friend Alix and I somewhere in Nice whilst on a night out on the town. I don't know where she is these days. I kind of wish I could find her and tell her how nice it was to see this photo. Brought back a flood of memories.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Palin Leaves the US For The First Time In 43 Years!
from http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
Sarah Palin did not visit troops in Iraq, a spokesperson for the Republican VP nominee confirmed Saturday, as new details emerged about the extent of the Alaska governor’s foreign travel.
In July of last year, Palin left North America for the first time to visit Alaskan troops stationed in Kuwait. Palin officials originally said her itinerary included U.S. military installations or outposts in Germany and Kuwait, and that she had visited Ireland. An Alaska spokeswoman for Palin had said Iraq was also one of the stops on that trip.
The Boston Globe reported Saturday that Palin visited the Iraqi side of a border crossing — but never journeyed past the checkpoint.
Earlier, campaign aides confirmed reports that Palin’s time in Ireland on that trip had actually been a re-fueling stop.
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Do you realize that Palin has never left the United States before last year? How can someone like this have any sort of worldly experience? Wait, isn't that necessary for someone in her potential position? This makes me want to vomit.
Why does she have to lie about the places she thinks she visited? Is she that unintelligent that she can't tell the difference between visiting Ireland and sitting on the plane while it refuels?
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Oh and this just in.
Sarah Palin's reputation for rarely deviating from a scripted stump speech as she travels from city to city is not entirely accurate. She’s open to changing a few lines here and there — depending on the audience.
Consider her speech Saturday in Nevada, site of the proposed Yucca Mountain Repository, a controversial project that would store radioactive waste in Nevadans’ backyard. At nearly every campaign stop over the last two weeks, Palin has touted McCain’s plan to expand nuclear energy, including storage and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel.
“In a McCain-Palin administration, we’re going to expand nuclear energy, expand our use of alternative fuels, and drill now to make this nation energy independent,” she said to cheers last week in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
But in Carson City, where the Yucca issue hits closer to home, that remark about expanding nuclear energy disappeared.
Palin also gave a pair of modified stump speeches during her recent Welcome Home tour through Alaska that failed to mention the notorious Gravina Island Bridge, subject of her usual applause line on the campaign trail that “I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere."
The Alaska governor routinely cites her opposition to the bridge on the trail to reinforce her reformer reputation, but fact-check groups and the Obama campaign have noted out that Palin supported building the bridge before she came out against it.
At rallies last week in Fairbanks and Anchorage, where Palin's original position in favor of the bridge is well-known, her “thanks but no thanks” was left behind in the Lower 48.
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So let me get this right, she ditched the "thanks, but no thanks" line when in her own state because everyone there knows her original position of supporting the bridge yet she still lies about it to everyone else in the Lower 48? That's incredible. If she has no problem lying about this then think about everything else she'd be inclined to lie about.
Oh and she lies to the communities closest to Yucca Mountain because she knows they're against the fuel dump yet she boasts about it everywhere else? Okay, so she lies, we know that, but now she lies to people's faces? And they don't feel the need to stand up and shout? I know she's not intelligent, but the citizens of that town needed to stand up and scream.
Sarah Palin did not visit troops in Iraq, a spokesperson for the Republican VP nominee confirmed Saturday, as new details emerged about the extent of the Alaska governor’s foreign travel.
In July of last year, Palin left North America for the first time to visit Alaskan troops stationed in Kuwait. Palin officials originally said her itinerary included U.S. military installations or outposts in Germany and Kuwait, and that she had visited Ireland. An Alaska spokeswoman for Palin had said Iraq was also one of the stops on that trip.
The Boston Globe reported Saturday that Palin visited the Iraqi side of a border crossing — but never journeyed past the checkpoint.
Earlier, campaign aides confirmed reports that Palin’s time in Ireland on that trip had actually been a re-fueling stop.
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Do you realize that Palin has never left the United States before last year? How can someone like this have any sort of worldly experience? Wait, isn't that necessary for someone in her potential position? This makes me want to vomit.
Why does she have to lie about the places she thinks she visited? Is she that unintelligent that she can't tell the difference between visiting Ireland and sitting on the plane while it refuels?
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Oh and this just in.
Sarah Palin's reputation for rarely deviating from a scripted stump speech as she travels from city to city is not entirely accurate. She’s open to changing a few lines here and there — depending on the audience.
Consider her speech Saturday in Nevada, site of the proposed Yucca Mountain Repository, a controversial project that would store radioactive waste in Nevadans’ backyard. At nearly every campaign stop over the last two weeks, Palin has touted McCain’s plan to expand nuclear energy, including storage and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel.
“In a McCain-Palin administration, we’re going to expand nuclear energy, expand our use of alternative fuels, and drill now to make this nation energy independent,” she said to cheers last week in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
But in Carson City, where the Yucca issue hits closer to home, that remark about expanding nuclear energy disappeared.
Palin also gave a pair of modified stump speeches during her recent Welcome Home tour through Alaska that failed to mention the notorious Gravina Island Bridge, subject of her usual applause line on the campaign trail that “I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere."
The Alaska governor routinely cites her opposition to the bridge on the trail to reinforce her reformer reputation, but fact-check groups and the Obama campaign have noted out that Palin supported building the bridge before she came out against it.
At rallies last week in Fairbanks and Anchorage, where Palin's original position in favor of the bridge is well-known, her “thanks but no thanks” was left behind in the Lower 48.
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So let me get this right, she ditched the "thanks, but no thanks" line when in her own state because everyone there knows her original position of supporting the bridge yet she still lies about it to everyone else in the Lower 48? That's incredible. If she has no problem lying about this then think about everything else she'd be inclined to lie about.
Oh and she lies to the communities closest to Yucca Mountain because she knows they're against the fuel dump yet she boasts about it everywhere else? Okay, so she lies, we know that, but now she lies to people's faces? And they don't feel the need to stand up and shout? I know she's not intelligent, but the citizens of that town needed to stand up and scream.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
CBS Pulls McCain Ad that Lies + Palin lies about the "bridge"
1. A John McCain web ad that was running on YouTube has been yanked because of a copyright claim filed by CBS.
The McCain campaign tried to 'spin' footage of CBS news anchor Katie Couric talking about sexism, as it related to Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign, to their own benefit by tying it to Sarah Palin.
A CBS spokesperson said, "CBS News does not endorse any candidate in the Presidential race. Any use of CBS personnel in political advertising that suggests the contrary is misleading."
That was a little shady of the McCain folks, don't you think?
2. (as reported by the AP and NPR amongst other news outlets)
Palin's only talking point this past week has been regarding her desire to cut pork-barrel spending/earmarks and how she killed the plan for the "bridge to nowhere". Well the truth is that not only did she SUPPORT THE BRIDGE PLAN while running for governor, but she was a STRONG SUPPORTER.
In fact appropriations process for the bridge happened before she became governor. And although most of the earmarks for the project -- which involved more than one bridge and a road -- were removed, Alaska received "every cent of its application," meaning that Palin had nothing to do with shooting down the bridge plan, it was done before she could do anything about it, but she went ahead and received all the pork barrel money from the fund anyway. Who knows what she did with it????
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Pretty much wherever she goes on the stump, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells voters she killed Alaska's now-infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" in portraying herself as an anti-pork-barrel reformer.
And yet, pretty much every time journalists have compared Palin's record with her rhetoric on that proposed bridge, they've called a foul. The results — whether from CBS News, USA Today, the Anchorage Daily News, NPR or some other outlet — have been remarkably consistent. The surprising thing is how little effect that journalistic fact-checking has had on the campaign trail.
"It is pretty striking that so many news organizations have looked into this independently and come to the same conclusion — that she didn't play that much of a role in ending the bridge," says Bill Adair of the St. Petersburg Times and the Web site PolitiFact.com. "And yet they continue to say it — day in and day out.
"I just hope the voters will stop to take the time to learn what's true and what's not — from us or from some other source — and then make their own judgment," Adair says.
'Thanks, But No Thanks'
Palin, the first-term governor of Alaska, usually offers up a formulation like the one she gave at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.
"I told Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks, on that Bridge to Nowhere,' " she told cheering delegates. "If our state wanted to build a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves."
She has repeated it at campaign stops since, as recently as Wednesday, and the anecdote has become a key element of her political biography as the campaign of her running mate, Sen. John McCain, casts her as a reformer in his own image. McCain has consistently opposed projects that are funded through specific earmarks tucked into larger legislation.
"Whether it's killing the Bridge to Nowhere … or vetoing $500 million in government spending in Alaska over the last two years, she has earned and deserves the title of reformer of her state," says Ben Porritt, a spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign.
A Complicated Record
Palin's record, however, is more complicated. The bridge involved would have connected the small town of Ketchikan with a sparsely populated island that has an airport. The bridge would have also cost several hundred million dollars. It is true that as governor, in 2007, she announced the project was dead.
But, as McClatchy Newspapers political reporter Margaret Talev says, "She was for it before she was against it — and actively for it before she became actively against it." McClatchy owns the Anchorage Daily News, which has covered Palin's quick ascent in state politics thoroughly.
While running for governor in 2006, Palin said she supported federal funding for the bridge, and she praised the state's two senior lawmakers, Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young, who were promoting the project.
But it came under national fire, and as Stevens and Young became tainted, political support for the project ebbed. (Stevens is now facing federal charges in a political corruption trial. Both Stevens and Young are battling for re-election.)
Congress dropped the specific designation of the more than $200 million in federal funds for the bridge, instead releasing it for use for any Alaska projects. Palin wanted to direct the money to other projects that would prove less embarrassing. So, according to major news organizations that examined Palin's record, there was no "thanks, but no thanks" moment.
Last Rites For The Bridge
"Even in Alaska, there were a lot of people who were opposed to it. So it's not like she boldly stood up against it," says Adair of the St. Petersburg Times. "What she did was, seeing the political reality, she ended it."
"It's not that she really killed it — but she did perform the last rites," Adair says.
As for the larger issue, as a small-town mayor, Palin hired lobbyists, and as a mayor and governor, she sought such targeted earmarked funds herself. The Associated Press reports that Palin is seeking another $200 million in such projects for Alaska next year.
Adair calls Palin's account of her role in the bridge's demise a "half-truth."
Jack Nelson, the retired Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, has a tarter term for it: "It is a lie," he says.
That's not a word most journalists use, because it is so charged. Nelson says he can use it because he is retired.
"Most of the time in past campaigns, when major news organizations have come out and said that something is totally false, the candidate will drop it," says Nelson, who was a reporter for more than five decades. "In this case, they are repeating it over and over and over."
But with so many other sources of information and opinion online, revelations in mainstream news organizations don't pack the same punch that they once did.
Campaign Defends Palin's Record
Porritt, the McCain-Palin spokesman, says there is no reason to back down.
"There have been a number of distortions about Sarah Palin's record as a reformer," Porritt says. "But this isn't about claiming the title. This is about having a record to back that up."
Porritt points to journalistic site FactCheck.org to prove Palin is telling the truth. But FactCheck.org wrote last week that Palin's line about the bridge is "inaccurate."
In fact, FactCheck.org cited the Bridge to Nowhere first in its list of reasons why it concluded Palin was "short on facts" during her speech at the Republican convention.
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I especially love this video where Karl Rove talks about how a certain Virginia Governor can't possibly have the experience necessary to join a Presidential ticket yet he doesn't realize that Palin has much less experience. Obviously Rove didn't read the municipal code for being the mayor or Wasilla Alaska
1. Preside at council meetings. The mayor may take part in the discussion of matters before the council, but may not vote, except that the mayor may vote in the case of a tie.
2. Act as ceremonial head of the city
Ceremonial. Laughable.
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And finally Palin doesn't even know what a Vice President does.....
The McCain campaign tried to 'spin' footage of CBS news anchor Katie Couric talking about sexism, as it related to Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign, to their own benefit by tying it to Sarah Palin.
A CBS spokesperson said, "CBS News does not endorse any candidate in the Presidential race. Any use of CBS personnel in political advertising that suggests the contrary is misleading."
That was a little shady of the McCain folks, don't you think?
2. (as reported by the AP and NPR amongst other news outlets)
Palin's only talking point this past week has been regarding her desire to cut pork-barrel spending/earmarks and how she killed the plan for the "bridge to nowhere". Well the truth is that not only did she SUPPORT THE BRIDGE PLAN while running for governor, but she was a STRONG SUPPORTER.
In fact appropriations process for the bridge happened before she became governor. And although most of the earmarks for the project -- which involved more than one bridge and a road -- were removed, Alaska received "every cent of its application," meaning that Palin had nothing to do with shooting down the bridge plan, it was done before she could do anything about it, but she went ahead and received all the pork barrel money from the fund anyway. Who knows what she did with it????
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Pretty much wherever she goes on the stump, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells voters she killed Alaska's now-infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" in portraying herself as an anti-pork-barrel reformer.
And yet, pretty much every time journalists have compared Palin's record with her rhetoric on that proposed bridge, they've called a foul. The results — whether from CBS News, USA Today, the Anchorage Daily News, NPR or some other outlet — have been remarkably consistent. The surprising thing is how little effect that journalistic fact-checking has had on the campaign trail.
"It is pretty striking that so many news organizations have looked into this independently and come to the same conclusion — that she didn't play that much of a role in ending the bridge," says Bill Adair of the St. Petersburg Times and the Web site PolitiFact.com. "And yet they continue to say it — day in and day out.
"I just hope the voters will stop to take the time to learn what's true and what's not — from us or from some other source — and then make their own judgment," Adair says.
'Thanks, But No Thanks'
Palin, the first-term governor of Alaska, usually offers up a formulation like the one she gave at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.
"I told Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks, on that Bridge to Nowhere,' " she told cheering delegates. "If our state wanted to build a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves."
She has repeated it at campaign stops since, as recently as Wednesday, and the anecdote has become a key element of her political biography as the campaign of her running mate, Sen. John McCain, casts her as a reformer in his own image. McCain has consistently opposed projects that are funded through specific earmarks tucked into larger legislation.
"Whether it's killing the Bridge to Nowhere … or vetoing $500 million in government spending in Alaska over the last two years, she has earned and deserves the title of reformer of her state," says Ben Porritt, a spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign.
A Complicated Record
Palin's record, however, is more complicated. The bridge involved would have connected the small town of Ketchikan with a sparsely populated island that has an airport. The bridge would have also cost several hundred million dollars. It is true that as governor, in 2007, she announced the project was dead.
But, as McClatchy Newspapers political reporter Margaret Talev says, "She was for it before she was against it — and actively for it before she became actively against it." McClatchy owns the Anchorage Daily News, which has covered Palin's quick ascent in state politics thoroughly.
While running for governor in 2006, Palin said she supported federal funding for the bridge, and she praised the state's two senior lawmakers, Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young, who were promoting the project.
But it came under national fire, and as Stevens and Young became tainted, political support for the project ebbed. (Stevens is now facing federal charges in a political corruption trial. Both Stevens and Young are battling for re-election.)
Congress dropped the specific designation of the more than $200 million in federal funds for the bridge, instead releasing it for use for any Alaska projects. Palin wanted to direct the money to other projects that would prove less embarrassing. So, according to major news organizations that examined Palin's record, there was no "thanks, but no thanks" moment.
Last Rites For The Bridge
"Even in Alaska, there were a lot of people who were opposed to it. So it's not like she boldly stood up against it," says Adair of the St. Petersburg Times. "What she did was, seeing the political reality, she ended it."
"It's not that she really killed it — but she did perform the last rites," Adair says.
As for the larger issue, as a small-town mayor, Palin hired lobbyists, and as a mayor and governor, she sought such targeted earmarked funds herself. The Associated Press reports that Palin is seeking another $200 million in such projects for Alaska next year.
Adair calls Palin's account of her role in the bridge's demise a "half-truth."
Jack Nelson, the retired Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, has a tarter term for it: "It is a lie," he says.
That's not a word most journalists use, because it is so charged. Nelson says he can use it because he is retired.
"Most of the time in past campaigns, when major news organizations have come out and said that something is totally false, the candidate will drop it," says Nelson, who was a reporter for more than five decades. "In this case, they are repeating it over and over and over."
But with so many other sources of information and opinion online, revelations in mainstream news organizations don't pack the same punch that they once did.
Campaign Defends Palin's Record
Porritt, the McCain-Palin spokesman, says there is no reason to back down.
"There have been a number of distortions about Sarah Palin's record as a reformer," Porritt says. "But this isn't about claiming the title. This is about having a record to back that up."
Porritt points to journalistic site FactCheck.org to prove Palin is telling the truth. But FactCheck.org wrote last week that Palin's line about the bridge is "inaccurate."
In fact, FactCheck.org cited the Bridge to Nowhere first in its list of reasons why it concluded Palin was "short on facts" during her speech at the Republican convention.
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I especially love this video where Karl Rove talks about how a certain Virginia Governor can't possibly have the experience necessary to join a Presidential ticket yet he doesn't realize that Palin has much less experience. Obviously Rove didn't read the municipal code for being the mayor or Wasilla Alaska
1. Preside at council meetings. The mayor may take part in the discussion of matters before the council, but may not vote, except that the mayor may vote in the case of a tie.
2. Act as ceremonial head of the city
Ceremonial. Laughable.
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And finally Palin doesn't even know what a Vice President does.....
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
photographs from march
i have to watch what i say. i'm lonely. thinking about going somewhere for a while, maybe forever. i found these photographs today. they're from march.
ps - don't steal these. i own the copyright. i hate to write things like that but people love to take others photographs, it hurts me when you do. thank you.
ps - don't steal these. i own the copyright. i hate to write things like that but people love to take others photographs, it hurts me when you do. thank you.
Monday, September 08, 2008
new Crooked Fingers album artwork + photography + music videos!!
The new Crooked Fingers album is about to be released with my photograph as the cover image. I believe you can order the album October 7th from any independent music store only.
Here's a screen capture of the new CF website.
I also took the background photo there during my music video shoot for Eric's solo song outing "Man O' War" which is now available online at my NEW WEBSITE! You can also check out the music video for his new song "Let's Not Pretend (To Be New Men)".
Here's a full quality image of the CD cover. What a great photo shoot! Can't wait to see this whole project in vinyl sitting in my living room.
Here's a screen capture of the new CF website.
I also took the background photo there during my music video shoot for Eric's solo song outing "Man O' War" which is now available online at my NEW WEBSITE! You can also check out the music video for his new song "Let's Not Pretend (To Be New Men)".
Here's a full quality image of the CD cover. What a great photo shoot! Can't wait to see this whole project in vinyl sitting in my living room.
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Monday, September 01, 2008
Rod Richardson + His Poy Boys
Whilst shooting some acoustic music videos up at the studio Rod Richardson + His Poy Boys got together for a one off recording session. We churned out a radio edit of Dylan's classic "Knockin On Heaven's Door" in record time, one take.
Rod "Moonshine" Blackhurst on Vox and Keys
Kelly "Boxcar" Magelky on Six String
Aaron "Slowhand" Johnson on Skins
Rod "Moonshine" Blackhurst on Vox and Keys
Kelly "Boxcar" Magelky on Six String
Aaron "Slowhand" Johnson on Skins
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